HistoryPad
Posted: 07 Aug 2015 15:08
For years I was bugged by not having a way to quickly jump to a recently listed item on a session.
Windows' Recents, XY's Recents, MiniTree, Hotlist - none of them could achieve what I wanted as they rely on
launched items and I needed to be a bit closer to something I stumbled upon in a session but was too busy to
actually launch it for the time being. Now what I need to do is just select such item with no other intervention
being required: it'll be added along many other items or locations I pass by on my current session and later retrieved
by using liveFilter - which allows me to quikly spot items containing partially matched strings. Any visited folders
and selected items are temporaly stored without user action.
The list is constantly updated so no duplicates are kept. It resets to currently opened tabs plus latest focused item as
well as its containing folder after 5 minutes or 5000 entries, whichever comes first. Those values can be adjusted.
__How To__
Have a Custom Toolbar Button (CTB) holding the code:
Run the script.
Each time you press the button, the HistoryTab is showed allowing you to choose where to go. Files or folders, they will
be opened in a new tab for your further operation.
Alternatively an UDC+CKS (User Defined Command+Custom Keyboard Shortcut) can be assigned for the same
command, which makes the usage a tad more comfortable.
The script will be reloaded after your intervention, resetting the HistoryTab.
Enjoy!
-SF
Windows' Recents, XY's Recents, MiniTree, Hotlist - none of them could achieve what I wanted as they rely on
launched items and I needed to be a bit closer to something I stumbled upon in a session but was too busy to
actually launch it for the time being. Now what I need to do is just select such item with no other intervention
being required: it'll be added along many other items or locations I pass by on my current session and later retrieved
by using liveFilter - which allows me to quikly spot items containing partially matched strings. Any visited folders
and selected items are temporaly stored without user action.
The list is constantly updated so no duplicates are kept. It resets to currently opened tabs plus latest focused item as
well as its containing folder after 5 minutes or 5000 entries, whichever comes first. Those values can be adjusted.
__How To__
Have a Custom Toolbar Button (CTB) holding the code:
Code: Select all
copytext "<xx>";
Each time you press the button, the HistoryTab is showed allowing you to choose where to go. Files or folders, they will
be opened in a new tab for your further operation.
Alternatively an UDC+CKS (User Defined Command+Custom Keyboard Shortcut) can be assigned for the same
command, which makes the usage a tad more comfortable.
The script will be reloaded after your intervention, resetting the HistoryTab.
Enjoy!
-SF